I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PayPal in Mar 2012
Interview
Applied online and got in touch with a recruiter. She sent a skills test and I passed the Skills test which consisted of 4 questions - 2 coding questions and 2 debug questions. After the Skills test, I was contacted by a member of the team I was going to work with and we had a conversation (phone interview) related to position for 5-10 mins and than problem solving. 1 of the problem was to find the longest substring match in a system which can accept only one character at a time. 2nd poroblem was based on linked list and it was to delete an element that was currently pointed without the help of any head or tail pointer. I passed this round, but the result came in after 2 weeks. After that I was contacted by another senior member of the team, but it seemed that he was not interested in me and asked general questions but it seemed he didn't even listen to my answers and not engaging at all. He asked open ended questions. I received a reject after 2 weeks of this 2nd phone interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Skills Test Question:
What is the output from this code (assume int is 32 bit)
int f(int n)
{
return n * f(n-1);
}
print(f(100));
I have signed a NDA,so cannot give any further questions, but most of them are listed in the paypal interviews here and one guideline I will give will be to get up to date with your linux commands too.
I had a recruiter call and they said they would send me a link to a Karat interview round in a week but I never received it. I mailed the recruiter multiple times but got no response or communication about it
PayPal response
1mo
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Recruiter call was basic scan of resume understanding tech stack what i work on and my interests. Prepare your resume and be ready to state why you want to work for the company.
PayPal response
2mo
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I interviewed at PayPal (San Jose, CA)
Interview
I interviewed 2 round, one front end, one hire manager, but didn’t move forward. The hr is helpful, the hire manager round asked about system design questions, which I feel may cause the rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Normal front end interview questions, implement a fetching api small task
Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve our interview process. We hope you can find another role on our website that fits your interest and join our team!